“The Dark Side of American Conservatism Has Taken Over”–But What Does This Mean?
Here’s an interesting discussion of the “dark side of American conservatism.”
Referring to the “dark side” implies that there is a bright side, but at this point it’s unclear exactly what that might mean. All we’re really talking about is creating misery to pay for tax cuts for billionaires, wholesale ruination of the environment, covering up malfeasance, ratcheting up international hostility, all topped off with overt racism and xenophobia. No one but the super-rich wins here, and even they (most of them, at least) are eventually going to wake up to the fact that they’re living in a morally abominable, isolated and irrelevant country on a deeply degraded planet.
Craig,
Ah yes, the view from the Washington Post.
The WP is owned by Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, a mult-billionaire who dines on roasted iguana and other exotic fauna for breakfast while his poorly paid and injured employees are forced to sleep in car parks.
Jeff Bezos is another of those anti-Trump billionaires who hate Trump’s dislike of of a globalized world and has criticized Amazon’s preference for using cheap foreign labour to under cut US business and impoverishment of the US working class.
Sycophantic journalists like the Berkeley educated, Max Boot, attack the President with hate filled comments, while carefully not observing their employer pocketing his tax cuts.
But wait a minute you say, why is Max boot not complaining about the hypocrisy of his employer Jeff Bezos ?
Well the answer could be that despite making nearly $6 billion in income last year, the Amazon group of companies paid zero tax last year, thanks to a complex system of credits and deferments. Bezos himself doesn’t pay tax at all in the US.
Okay, what about how ol’Jeff treats his “blue collar” workers ? Not very well at all, in fact Amazon and all it’s many subsidiaries are famous for miserably meagre, unhappy workplaces for all but a handful of sycophantic executives.
Amazon’s success, and that of Jeff Bezos himself, is due more to shrewd exploitation of workers and extremely clever tax avoidance practices that any commercial genius.
So, Craig what is it about this Billionaire that makes him so different in your eyes from the evil Donald Trump ?
It can’t be your mutual habit of breakfasting on roasted iguana or marinated lyrebird 🙂 Maybe it’s just be a mutual hatred of the man in the White House who prefers old fashioned, unsophisticated, US made cereal like raisin bran, or bacon and eggs ?
If only there were a bright side. Then maybe there would be fewer people in the streets, less hate and war, and less stupidity. Donald Trump has single-handedly destroyed the last 6 years of progress towards renewable energy. If he gets re-elected, it’ll be even worse.